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Hello,

I would confess that I have been a long time Eclipse Fan, but at the same time I would agree that I have started liking NetBeans recently. I am highly impressed with its RAD features. But I have few following questions.


1) Why NetBeans is generating its own build.xml or nbbuild.xml files, can you point me to some URL that explains how this works.
2) It is really easy to generate a WebService and WebService clients in less than 5 minutes, but how and where are we making sure that we are generating the standard .war or .ear files that are server vendor independent. I mean is NetBeans generating these standard artifacts and in which directory?

My main question is that I want to understand more about NetBeans philosophy and where can I read in depth about it ?

Thanks
 
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Hope this will help You
 
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1) Why NetBeans is generating its own build.xml or nbbuild.xml files, can you point me to some URL that explains how this works.

It does do that if you do not create a project with an existing build file or a new freeform project.
NetBeans uses Ant as its build engine. You can choose if NetBeans does the Ant management for you, or do it all by yourself. Most NetBeans project types generate their own build files, and NetBeans updats them during the project lifecycle. The two types mentioned above don't: you are free to use your own build.xml, but you will have to maintain it yourself.
 
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